US Patent Issued to AMBU on Sept. 30 for "Enhancing the visibility of blood vessels in colour images" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. RE50,608, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Enhancing the visibility of blood vessels in colour images" was invented by Andreas Harstedt Jorgensen (Rodovre, Denmark) and Finn Sonnenborg (Frederikssund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enhancing the visibility of blood vessels in a colour image captured by an image capturing device of a medical device, the colour image having a plurality of colour channels and a plurality of pixels, the method including for at least some of said plurality of pixels the steps of: (a) processing data obtained from a first colour channel together with data obt...